It would be useful to be able to run a report across two financial years - for example, if I want to run a P & L for 1/1/13 to 31/12/13 I need to run a report for 1/1/13 to 31/3/13 then 1/4/13 to 31/12/13 and combine the two of them.
"Run reports across two financial years"
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It would be really useful if MYOB had the ability to insert rows in Spend Money/Receive Money/General Journals transactions (you can do it in purchase/sales invoices) – it is extremely frustrating when something has been entered and a line is missing, you then need to redo a section of the journal if you want it in a particular order (or especially with recurring journals that may slightly change from month to month and you want to insert a line, but not at the bottom).
This would be easily overcome with the ability to insert lines in these types of transactions. What do other people think or am I the only one that wants the order of line items to be in a specific order?
"Ability to Insert/Delete rows in Spend/Receive Money and General Journals"
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We use Track Reimbursables to on-charge some expenses. This works well for purchases through Bills or Spend Money.
On occasion, we need to journal to the Track Reimbursable Job, but these transactions are not picked up by the reimbursement invoice.
We are using a work-around by using a contra bank account to make the correction (two step process) but it would be so much easier if journals were picked up by the reimbursement invoice.
"General Journals and Reimbursables"
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In MYOB account right, the Account Name character field only accepts 30 characters.
As we have account right linked to client accounting statutory reporter, some accounts names have to be abbreviated and spaces removed even. This doesn't look great especially when the financial statements need to be presented to banks and third parties. We are forced to export the report to word in order to write the full name of the account.
For example:
With current character limit
account name: Loan-Aust Dir Investments P/L
Proposed character limit increase to more than 50 characters
account name: Loan - Australian Direct Investments Pty Ltd
"Increase Account Name Character Limit"
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When posting Journal Entries there is new behaviour on the second line.
If your first line is a debit entry of say $100, when you tab to the second line it automatically populates the credit column with $100.
If you have more debits you have to then delete that entry, sioft-tab to go back the debit column and enter your amount.
This is frustrating and time consuming.
Please change it back so when you tab you get the debit column again and the credit only automatically populates when you tab off the bebit column WITHOUT entering anything
Apologies if this has already been raised, but a search didn't bring it up
"Journal entry defaulting to credit the 2nd line'
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I wouldn't think this was a particularly difficult thing to 'add' in to MYOB general ledger detail reports (or in the GST/Tax area etc) but we definitely DO need to be able to simply customise our MYOB general ledger details report so as to 'add' a column on that report to show the GST claimed/paid in respect of ANY transaction.
This makes it very quick and easy to pick a particular account, have the appropriate column filters ON (including the tax amount column) to drill down and not only see account totals but to determine which PARTICULAR/INDIVIDUAL accounts have had GST treated correctly.
Exception reports are fine...but when explaining to a client, it is far easier to simply bring up an account and show them which accounts are not doing what we need/expect them to do.
By having a 'tax column' account, it will also benefit the accountant by totalling up the GST applicable to those transactions without meticulously wasting time clicking into transactions one at a time then manually adding up as a basis for a journal adjustment.
Quickbooks has this simple tax amount column available to ALL ledger transaction detail reports and I think it is long overdue in MYOB reporting. Very simple for accountants and clients to make use of...please add in ASAP!
I have attached a QB report which is just a basic drill down into the general ledger of 'bank fees' --> I simply select tax column and it shows me which transactions did or did not have GST claimed on them WITHOUT having to view all transactions for a month/quarter/year for ALL accounts.
An exception report is great for bookkeepers or those at a data entry level...the column I refer to is a simple addition which helps accountants check particular accounts at a quick glance and gives us the information in a split second including the totals which form the basis for any adjustment required.
I also discussed this with a MYOB training representative some time ago in Brisbane who advised that this functionality was not and was never part of the MYOB reporting system. A MYOB representative advised us late yesterday to submit this here in the hope that it would be considered and adopted in newer versions...please do!
"Tax Amount Column"
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I think that there needs to be a facility with MYOB AccountRight for entering automatically reversing journals.
This would be a great feature and one that lots of MYOB users would appreciate as reflected in the forum.
"Reversing Journals"
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MYOB allows you to create Header accounts in the Accounts List and other lists (e.g. jobs, items, categories etc)
But why does it not show these headers in the drop down boxes for ease of reference? (I know we cannot code to them, but it would be are really handy reference point).
For example:
Accounts list looks like:
Training & Development (header account)
Engineering (GL account)
Construction (GL account)
Staff Amenities (header account)
Engineering (GL account)
Construction (GL account)
Drop down box looks like:
Engineering (GL account)
Construction (GL account)
Engineering (GL account)
Construction (GL account)
(how are we supposed to easily know which account is which?)
I do think this would be a useful feature for making sure the correct account is quickly selected. What do other people think? If you agree with the simple suggestion, please vote for it.
"Header Accounts - Ease of use"
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I have found MYOB reporting to have significant limitations when a business has different cost centres and wishes to report on these seperately
The business uses the 4 codes for sales and the 5 codes for cost of sales whilst the 6 codes are used for the admin expenses of the entire business. We cannot therefore report on profit centre 1, profit centre 2 etc seperately.
I have explored the use of categories and these appear to have potential. The major problem with this is that you need to specify the category at the bottom of each data entry page for every transaction. This is not feasible!!
SO - can the software be upgraded so that categories can be linked to account codes (so that the account code defaults to one of the categories). This would save having to enter the category on every transaction and hence open up huge potential for the use of category reports.
"Account Right reporting "
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We currently have two bank accounts, one with without an overdraft that is an asset in MYOB chart of accounts and a second with an overdraft that is a liability account in MYOB. The overdraft is our primary account.
The problem I have is that MYOB defaults to the bank account with the lowest account number, so that whenever you start to enter data you need to manually change the bank account to the overdraft.
My suggestion is that you should be able to tick a box to allow any of the "bank accounts" to become the default bank for data entry. This would avoid the problem when you forget and entry data to the wrong bank account and then have to make the changes.
Could you please consider this function or if anyone knows a way around this problem let me know.
Regards,
Ian Plambeck.
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Is it possible to produce a job transaction report that includes the GST in the Debit and Credit amounts. This is needed when customers require a report on the expenses and payment that have been incurred on their job. It would also helps with our budgeting.
Some of the transaction have GST and some transactions relate to exports and other GST free transactions so it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the current situation.
"Report - Job transaction including GST'
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Please can we have Account Right 2013.1 stop going back to the top of the list when editing the accounts list. This is most annoying when creating/editing a new chart. In the easy setup assistant, every time you edit an account, the screnn goes back to the top of the list - you have to keep scrolling down to where you were to continue. The same thing happens when you refresh the screen when in Accounts List and editing in there. I know this was requested in the early days - but doesn't appear to have been fixed yet.
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Submitted on behalf of Stephen Browning from Taxcorp
Roy I raised the issue of account deletions with you a few weeks back.
Yes you can use combine accounts, but this is only a feature you should use when you wish to combine the contents of two similar accounts.
MYOB continually states that an account cannot be deleted because it has existing journal entries. This includes situations in which transactions have been removed from an account, not by way of a journal but by the recoding of the transaction. The system still records that the transaction was entered to the first account.
"delete accounts'
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In the Account Lists area, there should be a column (next to the linked accounts column) that indicates if the account is active or inactive. It is very frustrating having to click into every account to see if it is active or not.
Also a button that can switch between showing all accounts or only active accounts would be useful. I think these suggestions would be very simple to do, but very useful. If you agree, pls vote for it!
P.S. The ability to combine accounts now is such a great function to help clean up account lists!
"Accounts List - Ease of Use for Active/Inactive Accounts"
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Hi
Our organisation runs a lot of international aide programs. Expenses on these programs need to be acquitted and audited. A large portion of these expenses are allocated through general Journals at the end of each month. The entries need to be substantiated with evidence. Accordingly we need to print of each of the journals attach the evidence and have the entries approved and authorise - a key control mechanism.
It would be useful if there was a function that allowed journals to be printed individually rather than by date as the later is cumbersome, inefficient and wasteful when you have dozens of journals on the same date e.g. eom.
Peter
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I think it would be great if AccountRight could produce the journal entry required to be processed to record the value of the entitlements on the balance sheet e.g. a just like the journal entry that is printed when using BASLink, but for recording entitlements.
AND/OR
Click a button called "Recognise Entitlements" and it will do the journal for you to a specified date (obviously you would need to setup which entitlements you want recognised i.e. yes to Annual Leave, no to Sick Leave etc)
"Automating recognition of leave entitlements"
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Currently the above report displays session times at UTC. It would be great if the user can specify the time zone for which the report is generated for.
If the user can't specify the time zone then at least default it to AEST. Without knowing the exact numbers but I hazard a guess that majority of AccountRight Live users are in this time zone.
Having to always work out when a user logged on is rather time consuming.
"Changing time zone for Session Security Audit Report"
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For managment reporting purposes it would be really good to have a report which compared say the previous month or previous quarter and provided the actual increase/decrease and also the percentage increase/decrease, to highlight any fluctuations in the current year.
"Reports - prior period profit and loss with % & $ increase/decrease"
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